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Lorna Simpson\u2019s painting retrospective \u2018Source Notes\u2019 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> starts with an alluringly strange image of a woman and her leashed cheetah swapping faces.\u00a0 Nearby, bullet holes resemble a constellation in the night sky and a huge meteorite hovers in the air in acrylic and screen print works that picture natural phenomenon in unexpected ways.\u00a0 The sense of surprise extends to monumental works that combine female heads taken from mid-century Ebony and Jet magazines with Arctic landscapes that are a deep rich blue color vs the expected white of ice.\u00a0 In this image titled \u2018Specific Notation,\u2019 a chic model with a penetrating gaze appears to be semi-buried in or perhaps emerging from a craggy, weathered landscape in a conflation of human and geologic time.\u00a0 (On view through Nov 2nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

Lorna Simpson, Specific Notation, ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorna Simpson\u2019s painting retrospective \u2018Source Notes\u2019 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art starts with an alluringly strange image of a woman and her leashed cheetah swapping faces.\u00a0 Nearby, bullet holes resemble a constellation in the night sky and a huge meteorite hovers in the air in acrylic and screen print works that picture natural phenomenon … <\/p>\n

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